I'll start it off conciderng I wasn't able to find a thread like this.
I was about 8 when I first started to have night terrors. These are like sleep paralysis but instead of being paralysed you go into a state where your body and unconcious mind are awake but your concious mind are in active REM sleep. In thses night terrors you expirence dreams in reality and it is a very disturbing and difficult thing to get over.
The worst one was when I was about 13. It was a normal day played N64 at my friends messed around then came home had supper and so on. I went to sleep at about 10PM. 4 Hours later I awoke from an insane dream and needing a drink of water but being to scared to get out of my bed i called to my parents at the time the house we were living in was farely large and my room was quite a was away. When they finally herd me they came running to calm me down as they got to the door out of the corner of my eye I saw something looking at me from outside of my window. It looked like the small child from most of my other dreams. This child was a reoccuing character in many of my night terrors and nightmares. At the moment I saw him i started freaking out trying to get my parents to look at the window. I cloed my eye's hoping to not see him anymore but when i opened them and looked to my parents I saw him standing behind them. A small child which i can only describe as having nothing but blood coming from empty eye sockets. After that i fell back into sleep and awoke 5 hours later with my dad sleeping near me on a small inflatable matress.
I woke him up and asked him what had happened and what he saw and said that that night me and my two brothers all had roughly the same nightmare all seeing a small boy with bleeding eye's so he decided to stay near us. I nearly freaked out again thinking about how my brothers could have seen the same thing as me.
The most disturbing thing was that when i moved to the house with my parents a couple years earlier i was completely fine and it was only in this certian house that i had the terrors. About 4 months later we moved on an unrelated issue and ive never really had a relapse into the terrors but while we stayed inthat house i had hallucinations every day for 5 years. My best friend who lived next to me said that a lot of people have moved into our house and left in mere months.
I don't really believe in ghosts or anything of the sort but this situation cause me to have an open mind on the subject.
I dont know if anyone else has expirenced anything like this but feel free to share good or bad dream's/nightmare's.